---
title: Even the attention paid him by the princess, who was delighted with… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Even the attention paid him by the princess, who was delighted with his beauty and pretty ways, did not console him, but there was no use in fighting against fate, and he could only wait and see what would turn up. Who acts: attention, princess, use, Gon. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andre
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/50/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/) / 50

# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 50

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Even the attention paid him by the princess, who was delighted with his beauty and pretty ways, did not console him, but there was no use in fighting against fate, and he could only wait and see what would turn up.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** attention, princess, use, Gon · **What happens:** pay, be, do, fight, wait, see · **To what, where:** Gon, console · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attention, princess, use, Gon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:1:50
# text = Even the attention paid him by the princess, who was delighted with his beauty and pretty ways, did not console him, but there was no use in fighting against fate, and he could only wait and see what would turn up.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
30	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
42	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	44	obj	_	_
43	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	ccomp	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | the attention | Gon |  |  |  | by the princess | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | with Gon's beauty and pretty ways; delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | the attention *not said here* | console |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Eventuality |
| 4 | **be** | past | no use |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fight** | gerund | no use *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against fate | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wait** | could | Gon |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **see** | infinitive | Gon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **turn up** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/49/)
- next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/51/)
- ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/1/)